UniAsset vs AssetTiger
Choose the asset management platform that fits your organization's operational maturity.
AssetTiger does asset tracking well, at a price that is hard to argue with. This guide sets out — plainly and with sources — where that is enough, and where teams need work orders, SLAs, checklists and financial reporting in the same system of record.
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The short version
- Asset register & tagging
- Depreciation & reporting
- Work orders & SLA enforcement
- TCO & Fixed Asset Register
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The quick verdict
If you only read one section, read this one. Each platform has a shape of organization it genuinely serves best.
Best for basic asset tracking
If the job is knowing what you own, where it is and who has it — and tagging it all with printed barcodes — AssetTiger is a well-built, inexpensive answer with an established mobile app.
- Barcode and QR tagging with printable and metal tag options
- Check-in / check-out custody tracking
- 80+ built-in report types
- Unlimited users on paid plans
Best for asset operations
When maintenance has to be executed and evidenced — not just scheduled — you need work orders with priority, SLA deadlines, escalation, approvals and completion checklists as first-class objects.
- Work orders with assignment, labour and material tracking
- SLA engine with automatic escalation on breach
- Inspection checklists that raise corrective work orders
- Incident management with immutable asset snapshots
Best for growing organizations
Multi-site teams eventually need finance and operations reading the same data. UniAsset carries depreciation, net book value, TCO and a Fixed Asset Register on the same records that maintenance runs on.
- Fixed Asset Register with depreciation and net book value
- Total Cost of Ownership accumulated from real work orders
- Executive dashboard across sites and departments
- REST API, webhooks and IoT signal ingestion
Feature comparison
The UniAsset column is generated from what the platform actually ships — plan entitlements and the capability registry in the codebase, not marketing copy. The AssetTiger column comes from AssetTiger's own public documentation. Where a capability is plan-gated on either side, the note says so.
Scroll the table sideways to compare — the capability column stays in place.
| Capability | UniAssetAsset Operations Platform | AssetTigerCloud asset tracking software |
|---|---|---|
| General | ||
| Asset registerCentral record of every asset with full history | Unlimited assets on every plan | Asset count determines plan tier |
| QR codes | Tag ID and scannable QR label on every record | Generate, print or order tags |
| Barcode | Not supported — QR only | Core capability; scan via mobile app |
| Bulk import | CSV and Excel, all plans | CSV and Excel |
| Custom fields | Orbit and above | Per category; capped on the trial tier |
| Asset assignmentCustody by person, department or location | Check-in / check-out | |
| Departments | ||
| Locations | Multi-site hierarchy | Sites and locations with map view |
| Maintenance & work managementBiggest difference | ||
| Preventive maintenance | AdvancedPM schedules with calendar, Orbit and above | Scheduled maintenance with reminders |
| Recurring maintenance | By date or usage interval | By date or interval |
| Maintenance history | Rolls into asset TCO automatically | Technician, work performed, cost |
| Work ordersA tracked unit of work with its own lifecycle and owner | AdvancedAssignment, labour and material tracking | Not documented as a distinct object |
| Priority levels | Emergency, Urgent, Routine, Planned | Not documented |
| SLA tracking | AdvancedDeadline from priority and asset criticality, Odyssey and above | Not documented |
| Escalation | Automatic notification on SLA breach | Not documented |
| Approval workflow | Cost threshold triggers an approval hold | Not documented |
| Photo attachments | Capture photos from the mobile app | |
| Checklist engineStructured inspection steps completed against a work order | AdvancedReusable templates, Orbit and above | Not documented |
| Automatic corrective maintenanceA failed inspection step raises the follow-up job by itself | Failed checklist item raises a CM work order with its own SLA | Not documented |
| FinancialKey differentiator | ||
| Depreciation | Straight-line and declining balance, Orbit and above | Straight-line, declining balance, sum-of-years-digits |
| Fixed Asset RegisterThe register finance signs off against | AdvancedDedicated FAR report with Excel export | Not documented as a distinct report |
| Total Cost of Ownership | AdvancedAccumulated from work order labour and materials | LimitedMaintenance cost reporting |
| Cost risk analysisFlags assets whose upkeep is outrunning their value | Orbit and above | Not documented |
| Asset disposal | Disposal accounting with gain/loss, Odyssey and above | Lifecycle tracking through disposal |
| Compliance & documentation | ||
| Document management | Documents as first-class records with their own lifecycle | Attachments, contracts, leases and insurance records |
| Warranty tracking | Warranty terms per asset | |
| Expiry alerts | Document, warranty and contract expiry | 30 / 60 / 90 day alerts |
| Incident managementBreakdowns and events captured against the asset | AdvancedImmutable asset snapshot at time of incident | Not documented |
| Audit trail | Event history on every record, all plans | Full activity log with timestamp and IP |
| Operations & intelligence | ||
| Notifications | Digest on Nova; 500/mo on Orbit; unlimited above | Configurable email alerts |
| Executive dashboard | AdvancedPortfolio cost and risk view, Odyssey and above | Reporting library rather than an executive view |
| Multi-site analytics | Odyssey and above | Reporting across sites and locations |
| Reporting | Asset, cost, maintenance, compliance and trend reports | Advanced80+ built-in report types |
| CSV export | ||
| Excel export | Fixed Asset Register and checkout reports | |
| PDF export | LimitedIncident reports only | Reports export to PDF |
| Platform & enterprise readiness | ||
| IoT signal ingestionTelemetry from sensors, trackers and IoT platforms | Signal ingestion and per-asset history, Odyssey and above | Not documented |
| REST API | API keys and integration hub, Odyssey and above | REST API documented on the vendor site |
| WebhooksOutbound events pushed to your own systems | Asset, assignment and incident events, Odyssey and above | Not documented |
| Role permissions | Role-based access; custom roles on Cosmos | Advanced120+ granular permission settings |
| Single sign-on | Microsoft Entra ID; directory sync on Cosmos | Google Sign-On and Google Workspace |
| Two-factor authentication | Not supported — use SSO for enforced MFA | Authenticator app or SMS |
| Mobile access | Installable PWA, works on any device | AdvancedNative iOS and Android apps with offline scanning |
Compiled from each vendor's public documentation and, for UniAsset, from the shipped implementation. Software changes — confirm current details with the vendor before making a purchasing decision. A dash means the capability is not available or not documented publicly.
AssetTiger column last checked: 4 August 2026. Check AssetTiger’s current features
Why teams move to an Asset Operations Platform
Almost nobody replaces working software for fun. These are the specific moments when tracking stops being enough — and they tend to arrive in this order.
Moving beyond spreadsheets
The register lives in three spreadsheets and one person's memory. The first move is any system of record — and at this stage AssetTiger is a perfectly good destination.
Maintenance has to be executed, not just scheduled
A reminder tells someone that a job is due. It does not assign an owner, hold a deadline, capture what was actually done, or prove it later. That gap is where work orders start earning their keep.
Audit readiness becomes a deadline
An auditor, insurer or regulator asks for evidence: who did the work, when, against which procedure, with what result. Event history and completed checklists answer that in minutes.
Operational visibility across sites
Two sites can be run from a report. Ten cannot. Leadership needs overdue work, SLA breaches and cost concentration on one screen, not assembled by hand each month.
Finance needs the same numbers as operations
When the Fixed Asset Register is rebuilt in a spreadsheet each quarter, the register and the maintenance system have already drifted. Depreciation, net book value and TCO belong on the same record.
Enterprise workflows enter the picture
Approval thresholds, escalation paths, role separation, API access and webhooks stop being nice-to-haves the moment asset decisions carry real money.
Where AssetTiger is a genuinely good choice
AssetTiger has earned its user base. It is focused software that does what it says, and for a large number of organizations it is the correct decision. Any comparison that pretends otherwise is not worth reading.
Easy to start
You can be tagging and tracking assets the same day. There is no implementation project, no consultant and no configuration phase to survive first.
Stronger tagging than ours
Barcode and QR generation, printing on office printers, and durable metal tags. UniAsset supports QR only — if printed barcode labels are how your team works, AssetTiger is ahead here and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Simple, focused interface
The product does not ask users to understand a maintenance methodology before they can record an asset. For occasional users, that restraint is a real feature.
Well suited to smaller organizations
Schools, clinics, nonprofits, small IT teams and single-site facilities often need an accurate register and expiry alerts — and nothing heavier.
Affordable entry, unlimited users
Pricing scales on asset count rather than seats, so adding people to the system does not add cost. For wide, light usage that is a genuinely friendly model.
Deep reporting library and native apps
80+ built-in report types out of the box, plus native iOS and Android apps with offline scanning — something a PWA cannot fully match.
Choose AssetTiger if…
- You need an accurate asset register and custody tracking, and little else
- Barcode tagging with printed or metal labels is central to how you work
- Offline scanning from a native mobile app is a hard requirement
- Maintenance means scheduled reminders rather than dispatched, evidenced jobs
- One site, or a handful, with no cross-site reporting requirement
- Finance handles depreciation in a separate accounting system and is content there
If that describes your organization, AssetTiger is likely the right call and we would rather you knew it now. Visit AssetTiger
Where UniAsset goes further
These are the capability areas that separate an asset tracker from an Asset Operations Platform. Each one exists because tracking alone stopped answering the question somebody was being asked.
One system of record, not a tracker plus three side systems
Assets, maintenance, work orders, documents, incidents and costs sit on the same records in the same database. Nothing has to be reconciled between tools at month end, because there is nothing to reconcile.
- Assets, work orders, documents, incidents and costs share one data model
- Every action writes to the asset's own event history
- Operations, facilities, IT and finance work from the same records
- No sync jobs, no exports between systems, no drift
Tracking only
The register is in one tool, the maintenance log in another and the cost picture in a spreadsheet. Month end is a reconciliation exercise.
With UniAsset
One record carries the asset, its work, its documents and its cost. There is nothing to reconcile because nothing was ever separate.
Work that has an owner, a deadline and a record of what happened
A work order carries a priority, an assignee, a due date, labour and material costs, and a completion record. That is the difference between knowing a job was due and knowing it was done.
- Emergency, Urgent, Routine and Planned priority levels
- Assignment to a person or team with a status lifecycle
- Labour hours and material costs captured at completion
- Approval hold when the cost crosses a configured threshold
Tracking only
A reminder fires. Someone probably did the work. The evidence is a note in a comment field, if anyone wrote one.
With UniAsset
The job has an owner, a deadline, a cost and a completion record — and a status you can report on while it is still open.
Deadlines that enforce themselves
Every work order gets an SLA deadline derived from its priority and the asset's criticality. When the deadline passes, escalation fires on its own — nobody has to be watching a list for the system to react.
- Deadline computed from work order priority and asset criticality
- Breach detection without anyone monitoring a queue
- Automatic escalation notification to the responsible party
- SLA compliance reported over time, not reconstructed after the fact
Tracking only
Overdue work is discovered when somebody chases it, or when the thing that needed fixing fails.
With UniAsset
The deadline is set when the work order is raised, the breach is detected without supervision, and the escalation goes out by itself.
PM programmes that generate the work themselves
Schedules generate the work orders. Compliance is measured against what the programme required, not against what somebody remembered to record.
- Date-based and interval-based PM schedules
- PM calendar showing what is due, overdue and complete
- Work orders generated from the schedule, not raised by hand
- PM compliance measured against the programme
Tracking only
The schedule produces an email. Whether the work happened is a separate question nobody can answer from the system.
With UniAsset
The schedule produces a work order. Completion is recorded against it, so PM compliance is a number rather than an opinion.
Inspections that close their own loops
Reusable checklist templates turn a technician visit into structured, comparable data. When a step fails, a corrective work order is raised automatically with its own SLA deadline — the finding cannot quietly die in a notes field.
- Reusable inspection and completion checklist templates
- Pass, fail and observation captured per step
- Failed steps raise corrective work orders automatically
- Completed checklists become the audit evidence
Tracking only
The technician notices a problem and writes it in a free-text note. Acting on it depends on someone reading that note.
With UniAsset
A failed step raises its own corrective work order, linked to the parent job, with a deadline already set.
Depreciation, book value and TCO on the operational record
The Fixed Asset Register is generated from the same records maintenance runs on. Total Cost of Ownership accumulates from actual work order labour and materials, so the cost of keeping an asset is never a separate exercise.
- Fixed Asset Register with Excel export for finance
- Straight-line and declining balance depreciation, net book value, salvage value
- TCO accumulated from real maintenance spend
- Cost risk analysis flags assets costing more than they are worth
- Disposal accounting with gain and loss on disposal
Tracking only
Depreciation reporting exists, but what an asset has actually cost to keep running lives in maintenance records nobody totals.
With UniAsset
Every work order's labour and materials roll into that asset's TCO, next to its net book value, in one register.
The view leadership actually asks for
Overdue work, SLA breaches, cost concentration and asset risk across every site and department — on one screen, current, without a monthly assembly exercise.
- Cross-site and cross-department cost visibility
- Maintenance backlog and SLA compliance trends
- Assets ranked by cost risk
- Compliance and expiry exposure at a glance
Tracking only
The answer exists across eight reports. Somebody exports them and assembles a deck once a month.
With UniAsset
One dashboard, always current, showing cost concentration, backlog and SLA performance across every site.
Signals in, events out
Telemetry from connected devices is ingested against the asset and kept as signal history. An authenticated REST API and outbound webhooks let UniAsset participate in workflows you already run.
- IoT signal ingestion with per-asset signal history and severity
- API keys and an integration hub for reads and writes
- Outbound webhooks on asset, assignment and incident events
- Microsoft Entra ID sign-in, with directory sync on Cosmos
Tracking only
The asset system is an island. Anything it should know about has to be typed in by a person.
With UniAsset
Devices and other systems write in through the API, and asset events push straight back out to your stack.
Moving from AssetTiger?
AssetTiger exports your data to CSV and Excel, and UniAsset imports both. That makes this one of the more straightforward migrations in this category — most teams are operational the same day.
- 1~15 minutes
Export from AssetTiger
Export your asset list, categories, locations and maintenance history to CSV or Excel using AssetTiger's built-in export.
- 2~30 minutes
Map and import
Upload the file to UniAsset. Map your columns to asset fields — including custom fields — and review the preview before committing.
- 3~1 hour
Rebuild structure
Confirm categories, locations, departments and assignments came across, then set depreciation method and useful life for financial reporting.
- 4Half a day
Turn on operations
Create PM schedules, checklist templates and SLA rules for the maintenance you were previously tracking as reminders.
CSV and Excel import
Standard formats, column mapping and a preview step before anything is written.
No vendor lock-in
Your data exports back out to CSV and Excel whenever you want it. We would rather earn the renewal.
Run both in parallel
Import into a free UniAsset account and keep AssetTiger running until you are satisfied. There is no cutover deadline.
Fast setup
No implementation project. Industry demo datasets let you evaluate the workflows before importing production data.
Frequently asked questions
The questions buyers comparing UniAsset and AssetTiger ask most often.
Yes, though the two are not built for identical jobs. AssetTiger is asset tracking software: registers, tagging, custody and scheduled maintenance reminders. UniAsset is an Asset Operations Platform — it covers that tracking layer and adds work orders, SLA enforcement, inspection checklists, incident management and financial reporting including depreciation, TCO and a Fixed Asset Register. If you need tracking alone, AssetTiger may be all you need. If maintenance has to be dispatched, evidenced and costed, UniAsset is the closer fit.
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